YAZ-JSON-PARSE(1)

💖 yaz-json-parse — the YAZ JSON parser, bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this is a page from section 1 (Commands) of the manual, and it's all about a lil utility called yaz-json-parse. she's tiny, she's cute, and she's here to show you the JSON API of YAZ (that's yaz/json.h for the girlies taking notes 📝).

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

yaz-json-parse [-p]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one flag. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so <pink>yaz-json-parse</pink> is a utility whose whole entire job is to demonstrate the JSON API of YAZ, which lives in yaz/json.h. think of it as a little demo girly, showing off the moves 💅

here's the tea on how she works: the program attempts to parse a JSON from standard input, aka stdin. she's a listener, not a talker, so you gotta feed her the JSON.

now for the outcomes, and yes there are exactly two:

• if the parsing fails, she returns exit code 1, and the parsing error message gets printed to standard error (stderr). so rude, but also valid.
• if the parsing succeeds, she returns exit code 0, and she produces no output at all unless you give her -p (peep the options below, bestie 👀).

ngl that "no output on success" thing is lowkey the whole personality of this program. she did the thing. she's not gonna flex about it. main character energy fr fr 💀

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -p — makes the JSON parser echo the JSON result string to standard output (stdout), but only if parsing from stdin was successful. and here's the spicy part: if -p is given twice, then the output becomes a multi-line output with indentation — aka pretty print ✨ two -ps and suddenly she's doing her makeup for the group chat selfie.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• yaz(7) — go read her too, she's the big sister of this whole situation 🫶

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Index Data — the legends themselves, no cap 🧚

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this doc shipped with YAZ 5.38.1, dated 10/16/2026, so go forth, pipe some JSON into her, and slay 💖🌟🍓